30 January 2016

Doc Rivers invokes Richard Nixon regarding Blake Griffin

(Mark J. Terrill/AP)

Blake Griffin has been in the news this past week after he broke his right hand in a fight with the team's assistant equipment manager. He'll be out for at least a month and this development has lead to murmurs as to whether the team should trade him. It's really not a great situation for a team ranked fourth in the Western Conference but coach/personnel czar Doc Rivers seems willing to forgive. And he used an interesting example to help his case.

Doc Rivers quote of the year: "You have to forgive people at some point. I believe that. We built Richard Nixon a library."